Dictionnaire de Marine à voiles -BONNEFOUX

Like any old dictionary, this work is of historical interest because it informs us about maritime terms which are no longer used today. Each vocabulary word used is translated into English and the definitions, in French, are very precise. Reference work on 19th century naval terms.

Pierre-Marie-Joseph de Bonnefoux (1782 - 1855) was a French sailor and lexicographer. He had a brilliant career in the navy and participated in the Napoleonic Wars before becoming a Navy instructor. While he was a maneuvering officer aboard the Belle Poule, he was taken prisoner by the English and discovered the new English sea telegraphy. He deciphered this new mode of communication by signals and sent his study to the French Navy which will be introduced on its buildings a few years later. He was then condemned to the pontoon, from which he escaped four times and during this twenty-month captivity completed an English grammar of naval terms which he would use to write his Dictionary of Sailing Marine.

Volume format in-4 (290x180 mm) in quality 90 gsm ivory paper, bound and sewn with 796 pages and 7 folding plates.

Author : BONNEFOUX